Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2c9efe21f7d2432…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 08:07:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 3453bcce404b30f9f0bc2640ef88d7f1 SHA-1: 2162e0374526c2e767367422af5f29897ebb32b8 SHA-256: a2c9efe21f7d24321a6e540968932329f96e571fa17c407348ffd64fe19be11a
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection indicating malicious intent. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically identifies the document as a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+go+hack+auto+catch PDF link annotation
    • http://gtshotel.it/images/file/ruwalotupuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aroma-es.red/yamituki-n/uploads/files/sumijafidebogidijidofur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtd.com.pk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruvix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalfurnish.com/userfiles/file/71155968677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portecitadelle.portecitadelle.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/657232493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicyazd.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41933442704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kungfuclasshongkong.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95531665135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lbjgold.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67938691828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landonintergroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wawuxerizotetiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donleroy.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/77339955389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheapmarkt.com/userfiles/file/27432941501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palezieux.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kefasodirafinub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bmo-agencement.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57886874133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kozhencherrymtc.org/userfiles/file/mitomod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://awarelaxcentrum.cz/user_files/file/35781870263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.displaysdirectaustralia.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vumafudigegite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnaixi.com/userfiles/file/20210913115605_484204258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everest-c.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fupapuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetburden.com/upload/users/files/kapojam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauben-buchmeier.de/kleinberliner-schuetzen/userfiles/files/40856458072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beauty214.com/uploads/files/202109171341533127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lblussana.it/images/file/guxabekizexuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/kokifejevufezojukajogeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eade697e78---23017113391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viboot.traigiongthuha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/damifanewepoxegizonutiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d2e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eaf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAF5 18580 bytes
SHA-256: 7fee232854263a771b4b5230f92d0cd0d73e07b55d98edbcecb8f2229eb7a2eb
font_02_sfnt_off00011b1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B1B 10464 bytes
SHA-256: a541c57faf42273469b2e87d4d207d5fa8330c6bd5dace414b1af84ddd5915e2